That is the meaning of fringe that is part of today's expression – lunatic fringe.

这也是我们今天的表达——" lunatic fringe（极端分子团体）" 里" fringe" 的意思。

But he does get the credit for making lunatic fringe more mainstream.

但他确实因为让" lunatic fringe" 这表达变得更为主流而得到了。

I think it's kind of a lunatic fringe argument, but it's been going on for a long time.

我认为这是极端分子的观，但是这种观由来已久。

Two other words that describe people who are part of the lunatic fringe are fanatics and zealots.

另外容这些极端分子团体成员的词是" fanatics（狂热信徒）" 和" zealots（狂热分子）" 。

There are several examples of writers in the late 1800s using the phrase lunatic fringe to mean a hairstyle.

19世纪晚期有好几作家使用短语" lunatic fringe" 表示发型意思的例子。

At the time, they were the lunatic fringe of the art world.

在当时，他们是艺术世界的边缘人物。

Whereas anti-Jewish sentiments were widespread among the educated classes of Europe throughout the nineteenth century, antisemitism as an ideology remained, with very few exceptions, the prerogative of crackpots in general and the lunatic fringe in particular.

当十九世纪全欧洲受过教育的阶级中普遍流行反犹太情绪时，除了很少的例外，反犹主义作为一种意识态，在总体上一直是疯狂者的特权，而具体上则处于疯狂边缘。